Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secret-service man must have many special qualities, but the one of least service to himself, or his country, is too ready and human a sympathy with the causes he is supposed to keep an eye on. Switzerland's Attorney General René Dubois, who personally operated the country's efficient 40-man counterintelligence organization, could not help but feel for France in her North African dilemma. A modest, hard-working tracker of spies, 48-year-old René Dubois, born on the French side of Switzerland and a member of the Swiss Socialist Party, spoke with impatience...
...information which does not affect Swiss affairs." Dubois had committed the unpardonable error for a secret-service man and, above all, for a neutral Swiss: he had taken sides. Said the cleric who buried him last week: "He was not only a functionary. He also had a human heart...
...traditional subject matter has any validity, they give scarcely a hint of it. They begin by outlining the "scope" of the curriculum in terms of nine "major functions of living"-"Practicing American Citizenship, Using the Tools of Communication, Developing Economic Competence, Improving Family Living, Protecting Life and Health, Building Human Relationships, Enjoying Wholesome Leisure, Satisfying Spiritual and Aesthetic Needs, and Meeting Vocational Responsibilities...
...anything else in the field, their work is neither a set text nor a formal reference book, but a remarkable grafting of plastic surgery history and techniques onto a chatty life history of Innovator Gillies (known to colleagues as "Giles"). Its 2,300 illustrations comprise an unprecedented gallery of human faces and limbs deformed from birth, shattered by shot and shell, smashed in accidents, maimed by disease or burned to hideous unrecognizability. Yet his before-and-after sequences end with a happy improvement, and in many cases there is restoration to completely normal appearance...
...busy disentangling and studying last week looked like an endless skein of white rubber band. Actually, he explained happily, it was 100 ft. of rare tapeworm which he found in the intestine of a whale captured off Catalina Island. Although his specialization is the dwarf mouse tapeworm, a common human parasite, Dr. Donald Heyneman, 32, of the University of California at Los Angeles, finds all tapeworms fascinating. He hates to pass up a chance to find a new species, for the surface of tape-wormology has hardly been scratched...